sábado, 5 de junio de 2010

Tassili n'Ajjer

Vídeo YouTube (por unescoSpanish, 03 de junio de 2010) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.1

Ubicado en un extraño paisaje lunar de gran interés geológico, el sitio de Tasili n’Ajer alberga uno de los conjuntos más importantes del mundo de arte rupestre prehistórico. Unos 15.000 dibujos y grabados permiten seguir las huellas de los cambios climáticos, las migraciones de la fauna y la evolución de la vida humana en los confines del Sahara, desde el año 6000 a.C. hasta los primeros siglos nuestra era. Las formaciones geológicas en forma de “bosques rocosos” de arenisca erosionada revisten un ...

Tassili n'Ajjer (english version)

Vídeo YouTube (por unesco, 03 de junio de 2010) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.1

Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings record the climatic changes, the animal migrations and the evolution of human life on the edge of the Sahara from 6000 BC to the first centuries of the present era. The geological formations are of outstanding scenic interest, with eroded sandstones forming ‘forests of rock’...
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Clovis Technology


A new book on the stone and bone tool technologies of Clovis culture of 13,500 years ago, published by faculty at Texas State University, is the first complete examination of the tools themselves and how the Clovis culture used them and transmitted their production.

The book, “Clovis Technology (International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series 17),” covers the Clovis culture's making and use of stone blades, bi-faces and small tools as well as artifacts such as projectile points, rods, daggers, awls, needles, handles, hooks and ornaments made from bone, ivory, antler and teeth.

It examines the tools used to make other tools, such as billets, wrenches, gravers and anvils, and explores how Clovis culture acquired and transmitted stone tool production.

It is co-authored by Texas State archaeologist Michael B. Collins, who also directs the renowned Gault archaeological site in Central Texas, the world's largest Clovis excavation.

It is estimated that more than 60 percent of known Clovis artifacts have come from the Gault site near Florence. Until recently, Clovis technology was believed to represent the Americas' earliest human inhabitants, having arrived in the hemisphere from Asia by walking across the Bering Land Bridge between 11,000 B.C. and 8,000 B.C.

However, recent discoveries at Gault and elsewhere, of stone and bone artifacts predating Clovis, have convinced most archaeologists that a culture existed in the Americas at least 500 to 1,000 years before Clovis, possibly arriving by boat and on foot.

“Our book, the first thorough examination of Clovis technology, is a step towards determining what came before Clovis,” Clark Wernecke, executive director of the Gault School of Archaeological Research, said.

“By starting with what we know, we can look for indications of what came before.”

Book co-authors include Bruce A. Bradley, director of the Experimental Archaeology Master's Programme at the University of Exeter, and C. Andrew Hemmings, Mercyhurst College.

Contributors include Jon C. Lohse, director of Texas State's Center for Archaeological Studies and Marilyn Shoberg, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory.

Dolmen de Azután




Vídeo YouTube por nuevohermes — 03 de junio de 2010.
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El Dolmen de Azután (Azután, Toledo, España) fue la primera de las evidencias megalíticas localizadas en el interior de la Meseta Sur con fechas radiocarbónicas que permitieron situar cronológica y culturalmente las poblaciones del Neolítico medio, final y Calcolítico en la cuenca media del río Tajo y sus relaciones con el abundante fenómeno del Megalitismo del interior peninsular... Wikipedia.org

Foto: Dolmen de Azután. Panoramio / Alfonso-Mart.


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viernes, 4 de junio de 2010

Sitios prehistóricos y cuevas con pinturas parietales del valle del Vézère

Vídeo YouTube (por unescoSpanish, 03 de junio de 2010) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.1

El sitio prehistórico del valle del Vézère comprende 147 yacimientos arqueológicos y 25 cuevas ornadas con pinturas parietales, que ofrecen un interés antropológico y estético excepcional. Las más importantes se hallan en la cueva de Lascaux, cuyo descubrimiento en 1940 marcó un hito en la historia del arte prehistórico. Las escenas de caza representadas en ellas son de una composición admirable y comprenden cien figuras de animales ejecutadas con un agudo sentido de la observación, que asombran por su gran riqueza de ...

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley.
Vídeo YouTube (por unesco, 03 de junio de 2010) añadido a Paleo Vídeos > Prehistoria Universal > L.R.2.1

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality...

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jueves, 3 de junio de 2010

Prehistoric Rock Art Reveals Creator's Bird Obsession


The Djulirri Rock Shelter in northern Australia is well known to fans of rock art.

Archaeologists probing remote nooks and crannies of the shelter, however, have just discovered a prehistoric individual's secret obsession with a single bird, which the artist stenciled over and over again.

The over 9,000-year-old bird stencils, featured in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity, are the first ancient stencils of whole birds ever documented, according to the researchers.

"Small birds were usually not stenciled, so our find is unique," lead author Paul Tacon told Discovery News. "In recent times and for some people today, small birds are sometimes said to be spirits of ancestors and were not harmed. Perhaps this is why they were usually not stenciled."... Slideshow Discovery news

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Ancient bird stencils discovered in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Antiquity Volume: 84 Number: 324 (June 2010).
The rock art that redraws our history (2008)

martes, 1 de junio de 2010

Roches de mémoire. 5000 ans d’art rupestre dans les Alpes

A travers une sélection de 200 photographies, ce livre présente un panorama de l’art rupestre dans les Alpes françaises, italiennes et suisses. Il s’ouvre sur le travail d’un ethnologue qui s’est penché sur les gravures pastorales des années 1950, qui est remonté jusqu’à leurs auteurs et les a interrogés sur ce que représente l’«acte de graver»... Saber más (Pdf).

Roches de mémoire. 5000 ans d’art rupestre dans les Alpes
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FRANÇOIS BALLET, PHILIPPE CURDY, PHILIPPE
HAMEAU, GUILLAUME LEBAUDY, PIERRE MACHU,
RAFAELLA POGGIANI, ODILE ROMAIN, GEOFFROY DE
SAULIEU, DARIO SEGLIE
22 X 28 CM
288 PAGES
NOMBREUSES ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS
RELIÉ
COLLECTION PIERRES TATOUÉES DIRIGÉE PAR JEANLOÏC
LE QUELLEC
EDITIONS ERRANCE
PARUTION : JUIN 2010

Flint findings in Kent reveal new era of prehistory

These pieces of flint, left, found in Dartford, Kent, have revealed the existence of Neanderthals in Britain between 200,000 and 65,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown epoch in British pre-history when Stone Age hunters re-entered Britain after an absence of up to 90,000 years – because of climatically induced sea-level changes which turned the English Channel into dry land.

Until last month, no proof had ever been found for human occupation in Britain between 200,000 and 65,000 years ago – but now new evidence has revealed a human presence here in the middle of that period.

Although early humans originally arrived in Britain at least 700,000 years ago, they had been repeatedly forced out by particularly cold spells within the Ice Age.

But over subsequent millennia, their descendants and others gradually acclimatised to Europe's intermittently chilly conditions. As these early humans became more used to the cold, they evolved into a separate species of humanity, known as Neanderthal man.

Archaeologists from Southampton University and a commercial excavation unit, Oxford Archaeology, have discovered evidence of stone-tool manufacture, demonstrating that Neanderthals were living in Kent about 110,000 years ago.

Prior to that, the world had been warmer, the ice caps smaller, sea levels higher and the Channel had consequently been full of water and therefore uncrossable.

But then temperatures plummeted, sea levels dropped, the Channel dried up and big game in Britain migrated northwards – and the Neanderthals followed their dinner.

The Kent discovery is an example of how unprepossessing archaeological finds can have huge implications. For the objects which have changed our understanding of such a huge chunk of prehistory are just two pieces of flint – one 8cm-long probable cutting implement and a waste flake, almost certainly discarded while a Neanderthal hunter was making a similar tool... The Independent


Los Neandertales vivieron en Inglaterra 40.000 años antes de lo que se pensaba.

Un arqueólogo de la Universidad de Southampton, en el Reino Unido ha descubierto evidencias de la presencia de Neandertales en Gran Bretaña al inicio de la última era glaciar, es decir, 40.000 años antes de lo que se creía hasta ahora.

El investigador descubrió dos antiguas herramientas manuales de piedra en Kent, durante una excavación. Se cree que estas herramientas fueron usadas para despiezar animales muertos.

Las pruebas realizadas señalaron que estas herramientas tendrían unos 100.000 años, lo que prueba que, en ese periodo, el hombre de Neandertal ya vivía en la región.

Según los especialistas, se sabía que los Neandertales habitaban el norte de Francia en ese momento, y este nuevo hallazgo sugiere que pasaron a Inglaterra a pie, a través de un puente de tierra existente entonces en el Canal de la Mancha. Tendencias 21 / Yaiza Martínez.

lunes, 31 de mayo de 2010

Encuentran pintura rupestre de 40 mil años de antiguedad en Australia‎

Foto: Abc.net.au / Ben Gunn.

La obra, que recrea dos enormes pájaros que parecen emús, podría ser la más antigua del arte aborigen australiano.

El hallazgo fue localizado hace dos semanas en el extremo norte del país, tendría por lo menos 40.000 años de antigüedad de acuerdo a la especie de las aves, explicó Ben Gunn, uno de los miembros de la expedición.

"Según los detalles de la pintura, creemos que fue hecha por alguien que conocía muy bien el animal, cuya especie desapareció o realmente vivió durante más tiempo que el que hasta ahora creen los científicos", añadió el experto.

Gunn señaló que los emús, de la familia Genyornis, se extinguieron hace decenas de miles de años junto a otros animales endémicos como el tigre de Tasmania o el canguro gigante.

En la región norte vive la tribu nativa de los jawoyn, cuyo jefe, Wes Miller, asegura que sus antepasados llegaron a la zona antes de que desaparecieron los emús.

"Las pinturas verifican que los jawoyn han vivido en esta parte del país durante mucho, mucho tiempo", comentó Miller, para quien se trata de un descubrimiento "muy interesante". Sídney (Efe).

Megafauna cave painting could be 40,000 years old

Scientists say an Aboriginal rock art depiction of an extinct giant bird could be Australia's oldest painting.

The red ochre painting, which depicts two emu-like birds with their necks outstretched, could date back to the earliest days of settlement on the continent.

It was rediscovered at the centre of the Arnhem Land plateau about two years ago, but archaeologists first visited the site a fortnight ago.

A palaeontologist has confirmed the animals depicted are the megafauna species Genyornis.

Archaeologist Ben Gunn said the giant birds became extinct more than 40,000 years ago... Abc.net.au

13,000-year-old clay figure found in Japan

A clay figure believed to be 13,000 years old and one of the oldest in the country, was found in an archaeological site in Higashiomi, Shiga Prefecture, the Shiga Prefectural Association for Cultural Heritage said.

The tiny figure, 3.1 centimeters in height and 14.6 grams in weight, depicts a female torso with breasts and a waistline.

The figure, which was discovered at the Aidanikumahara archaeological site, is from an incipient era of the Jomon Pottery Culture, according to the association.

Another female clay figure from approximately the same era was found in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, in 1996.

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
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domingo, 30 de mayo de 2010

Les religions de la préhistoire (3)

L. R. de vídeos Dailymotion (por prophecy-comes_sometimes, 15/05/10).

Un résumé ou une synthèse des croyances religieuses de la préhistoire : Vénus de pierre, mégalithes, peintures rupestres, shaman, rites funéraires…… des vidéos et des liens interessants… lien vers de documents en français.

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